Although it's been a very sad time here as my father passed away last weekend it was heartening to see that his life touched many people... many, many tributes on social media and direct to us have been comforting. He and I were very close and it was him who inspired me to love nature as I do-not some sanitsied Country File nature but a warts-and-all version, the true countryside really, held together by nails and baler twine, old vans full of vegetables, ropes for seatbelts, bodges, welds and repairs and... well I could go on but you get the idea, he was my hero and I became his...and once he even found a Velvet Scoter on Shopwhyke Pit!
I will always miss you Dad & your 100% support but I will honour your legacy, being a bloody good dad, with my son as you would have wished. XX
Peter Ives 1930-2026 requiescat in pace:
